Monica Johnson

Monica McGaughey Johnson, age 59 of Athens, Tennessee passed Sunday, April 25, 2021 at her home .

She was a graduate of Sweetwater High School class of 1979. Monica enjoyed shopping online, working with her flowers and gardening and she love being around her family and helping them as much as she could. She worked for a time as a bank teller at a local bank in Athens, TN.

She is preceded in death by her mother Mary Glynn Asbury and father Robert McGaughey II and very special cousin/godmother Gladys Wells.

Survivors include her devoted husband of twenty-five years, Glenn Edward Johnson of Athens, TN. brothers, and sisters, Arnold Asbury, Karen Asbury, Jason McGaughey, Yvonne Jones, Shelia (Cornell) Glover all of Sweetwater, TN., Connie (Phillip) Dunn of Knoxville, Vicki (Walt) Bragg of Morristown, TN., Robert ‘Skeeter’(Terry) McGaughey III of Atlanta, Ga., Van (Sherry) Upton of Rosenberg, TX, mother-in-law Jennie L. Johnson,  brothers-in- law Fredrick Johnson of Athens, Kenneth Johnson of Memphis, sister-in-law Joy (Curtis) Mapp of Athens, TN.  Aunts and uncles Pat McClendon, Jackie Latham, both of Sweetwater, TN., and Mary Swafford of Athens, TN., Helen Ruth (Billy) Robinson of Chattanooga, TN, Hugh Latham Jr. of Sweetwater, TN, Alberta (Swan) Hoover, Joyce Brown, Robert (Peggy) Johnson of Cleveland, Mary Belk of Detroit, MI,  a host of nieces, nephews, family and friends and special friends Michelle Ferguson, Revetta Bradley, Debra Scruggs.

Graveside services will be Sunday, May 2, 2021 at 3:00 p.m. at Hammonds Cemetery in Athens, TN. with Rev. Vant Hardaway officiating.

In observance of COVID-19 there will be a walk-through visitation at the funeral home from 12:00 noon until 2:00 p.m. at M.D. Dotson & Sons Funeral Home- Athens, TN.